Adjustable garment-pattern



' (No Model.)

r O. OSSE.

ADJUSTABLE GARMENT PATTERN.

No. 522,800} Patented July 10, I894.

WITNEEIEEE: 5 INVENTUR UNITED STATES CHARLES OSSE, OF BALTIMORE,MARYLAND PATENT OFFICE.

ADJUSTABLE GARMENT-PATTERN.

SPECIFICATION forming partof Letters Patent No. 522,800, dated July10,1894. Application filed May 4, 1893- Serial I To. 472984. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern: I

Be it knownthat 1, CHARLES Ossn, a citizen of the United States,residing at Baltimore, in

. garment patterns wherein the sections which together constitute thecomplete garmentpattern may be readily united and placed on the personand then adjusted to fit the body, each section conforming itselfproportionately to that part of the body which it covers; and on theunited sections being removed and the several sections detached fromeach other each section will serve as an approximate pattern.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which--Figure 1, is a view of one of the breast patterns. Fig. 2 is a View,separately, of the stationary or immovable base. Figs. 3 and 4 are viewson an enlarged scale of the edges of two of the pattern-sections andshowing the hook and eye for connecting them together.

Referring by letters to the drawings, A indicates a flexible, elasticfabric, which is cut to ashape corresponding generally to that of thatgarment-section for which it is to form the pattern,

Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings show a frame which comprises two verticalpieces, a, and two horizontal pieces, a*, rigidly connected together bypins or otherwise. The frame has set-screws, 0, each having a head, 0',on the under side of the frame, its body portion passing through andprojecting from the outside of the said frame and having a thumbnut, 0on its threaded end. Stretcher bars, d, radiatefrom each of said setscrews and their ends are secured by a rivet, f, or otherwise to oneedge of the fabric, A. Each stretcher bar has a closed longitudinalslot, d, which takes over one of the set-screws, c. As many as from oneto five of the stretcher bars are on each set screw. By thisconstruction and arrangement of the regulating set-screws at differentparts of the frame,

the distance between the set-screws and the length and breadth, but theedges of thepattern will have the shape and contour of the particularbody being measured; and by means of the stationary frame whichconstitutes an immovable base and the set-screws on it, the said screwshave a fixed or basic point from which all the extensions andcontractions of the stretcher bars or fabric are made. 7

The pattern-sections are, in the present instance, designed to befastened together by means of hooks and eyes, 6. Any other means offastening may, however, be employed.

In using the entire garment-pattern, the various sections thereofare tobe attached together by the hooks and eyes; and the thumb nuts, 0, ofthe set screws being loosened, the garment-pattern is placed as a jacketon the person for whom a garment is to be cut. The stretcher bars,--and,in case the edge-stays are used, they also,-are then adjusted till theentire garment-pattern fits the person of the wearer, as it is desiredthe suit to be cut shall fit him. When this has been done, all of theset screws are tightened, the garment pattern is removed from theperson, the sections thereof disconnected and the garmentsections outaccording to the several patternsections, such allowances being made forseams, cite, as may be necessary. The fabric, A, is attached only at therivets, f.

It is to be. understood that the particular body-pattern here shown ismerely illustrative of my invention and that the invention is applicableto other garments or patterns.

Having thus described my invention, what Iclaim, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, is-- An adjustable garment pattern or section having incombination a suitable elastic fabric, a stationary or immovable baseresting on the fabric; set screws fixed on the said immovable base; andstretcher bars each hav ing one of their ends provided with a10ngitudinal slot which takes over one of the said set-screws, and saidstretcherbars extending from the set-screw to the edge of the patternwhere the other ends of the bars are secured to the said fabriqas shownand described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the presence of twowitnesses.

CHARLES ossE,

Witnesses:

CHARLES E. MANN, Jr, ALVAN MAcAULEY.

